Cotton elevator and distributer



(No Model.)

s, W. BARTHOLOMEW. COTTON ELEVATOR AND DISTRIB UTER. No. 284,359. Patented Sept 4, 1883.

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SIDNEY w. BARTHOLOMEW, or GASTALIA, NORTH CAROLINA.

I COTTONEJLEVATOR ANIDIDISTRIBUTER.

'srnorrroArron forming part of Letter s ratent lmesaese, datedseptember 4, 1883.

Y Application filed February 13,1885. (No model To all whom it vii/(Ly concern vators. and Distributers for Gin-Houses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification. 1o .ing seed-cotton in custom gin-houses, and also for feeding the same to the gin and the invention consists in the novel construction here.

inafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of agin house and the cotton elevator and distributor. Fig. 2.is a transverse section of the same on line a: w,Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of a part of thedistributer.

A indicates .a custom gin-house, having a central passage-Way, B, and a series of stalls or chambers,0, on each side of the passage,

. in which stallsit iscommonto store preparatory to ginningthe severalrespective batches l g 5 of cotton belonging to different customers. To

save the laborof storing this cotton by hand I provide anelevator, D, atfoneend of the house, on the outside thereof, which-is adapted to communicate with a distributer, E, ar-

o ranged in the upperpart of thehouse, and 6X:

tending from one end thereof tothe other: The bottomiof the distributer is provided with openings corresponding to the stalls, and

adapted to be closed by slides F, so that by 5 removing one of the slides and attaching a chute, G,nnderneath the opening the cotton may'be thrown toeither side of the passage B into any one of the stalls as it falls through.

the opening. i

The elevator and distributer are constructed substantially in the same. manner, each consisting of two endless ropes, H, secured to opposite endsof a series of rakes, I, and passed around pulleys J, which aregto be suitably 5 supported, and adaptedfor receiving motion fromany desired sourcerof power. The pulend of the, inclined elevator D extends above This invention relates to machineryfor stori leys J have groovesz' ifor theropes, and studs Be itknown that I, SIDNEY W. BARTHoLo MEW, of Oastalia,*= in the county of g Nash and State of North Carolina, have invented a new 5 and useful Improvement in Seed-OottonElej j to prevent the ropes from slipping in the grooves. The pulleys are also provided with a deepcircumferenti'al groove, is, at thecenfter, to accommodate the handles K of the rakes I. The object of the handles K is to prevent" the rakes from yieldingand turning backward when drawn against the cotton.1 The upper the adjacent end of the distributer E, so that I as the cotton is drawn up the elevator it will tend to drop into the distributer, and will be easily caught-by the rakes, of the latter. The lower end of the elevator communicates with 6.0

a hopper, L,.into which the cotton is to be placed. 1

A duplicate of the elevator may be used inside the the gin. 4

The ends of the rakes are to be supported. by guides m, secured to the inner sides of the boxes of theelevator and distributer to prevent them fromrising up While at work, and to keepthe teeth of the rakes from touching the bottom of the boxes and roughening, the

surfaces.

3 WhatI claim is 1.;Inaicotton-elevator, a belt of pair of ropes havingla series of rakes, I, provided with handles K, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose specified.

2.Inja cottonelevator, the combination, with the ropes carrying-the rakes I, of the pulleys J,1having grooves 75 to accommodate the handles of the rakes, substantially as shown and described. I 3. Ina cotton-elevator, the inclined removable chute, adapted to be secured in an open ingin the distributerfor throwing the cotton 8 to one side into a stall of a gin-house, substantially as shown and described. SIDNEY W. BARTHoLoMEw.

Witnesses:

JAMEs M. hIA Y, WILLIE HARPER.

gin-house for feeding the; cotton to i 

